FIRST MOVER: Crypto Progress Is Not the Same as the Beginning of the Internet: Kara Swisher
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Author, journalist and podcast host Kara Swisher reflects on her decades-long reporting career.
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Tech journalist, author and podcast host Kara Swisher joins "First Mover" to reflect on her decades-long career reporting on some of the biggest technological advancements in recent history. "The internet was a major Cambrian explosion. This is a tiny one,” she said when asked if recent crypto progress is similar to the early days of the internet. Swisher also shares her thoughts on the tech founders she’s interviewed over the years, what the future might look like, and a bitcoin wallet she lost years ago.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “First Mover” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and Melissa Montañez and edited by Victor Chen.
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| 0:00.0 | I heard that you had a Bitcoin wallet. |
| 0:02.3 | It wasn't a wallet then. |
| 0:03.7 | You had to put it on a hard drive. |
| 0:05.3 | Again, it's so long ago when Wences made me do this so I could see it. |
| 0:10.1 | And it was on a hard drive, on a thumb drive. |
| 0:12.7 | It is somewhere in the world, unless it's gotten destroyed. |
| 0:15.3 | And so at the time, it was for some reason, $50 sticks in my head. |
| 0:19.1 | I bought 10 of them. I just did it for a story just to see |
| 0:22.0 | how it worked. And then I proceeded to lose it. So there you have it. With the rise of blockchain |
| 0:26.4 | and AI, we are living through a pivotal time when it comes to the development of technology. |
| 0:31.8 | Our next guest is a journalist who has lived through it all. The first piece of tech journalism |
| 0:37.0 | she ever wrote was on October 3rd, 1980, |
| 0:39.9 | and it was on the fraudulent use of pay phones. |
| 0:43.0 | Now, for all of the young people watching who have no idea what I'm talking about, |
| 0:47.4 | there used to be phones on street corners that you would put a corner in to make a call. |
| 0:50.9 | Yes, that used to really happen. |
| 0:52.9 | Now, since then, she's become one of the most prolific, |
| 0:56.5 | recognized, and sometimes feared tech journalists of our time. She sat down with the likes of |
| 1:02.2 | Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and more, and isn't afraid to call it as she sees it. |
| 1:08.7 | Her latest book, Burn Book, a tech love story, chronicles her |
| 1:12.8 | journey. And she joins us today to unpack some of her story and weigh in on what she thinks |
| 1:17.9 | about blockchain, AI, and everything in between. Kara Swisher, welcome to First Mover. Thank you very much. |
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